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Quotes About Art

I loved comedy all my life. I think it's a real powerful art form.
~ Roseanne Barr
I never base a character on someone I know. You can get ideas from real life, but every character you write is some aspect of yourself.
~ S. E. Hinton
Art is the extended arm of your imagination, The feast of inspiration for your muse. Art isn't just creativity, its a way of life.
~ Sarah Curran
Watercolor is like life. Better get it right the first time--you don't get a second chance!
~ Sergei Bongart
I think my music has a big message, and I think when people really get into it, it does help their life sometimes. It inspires me; it's my favorite part about my job.
~ SonReal
Even luxuries are arranged according to ideas and ideals, to make them reflect as much of thought-life as possible - and this is Art.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Singing is and always will be a part of my life.
~ Tammin Sursok
After you turn on, don't spend the rest of your life contemplating the inner wonders. Begin immediately expressing your revelation in acts of beauty.
~ Timothy Leary
Prose writers are interested mostly in life and commas.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
Performing in a live theater is absolutely unbeatable. It is something I have done my entire life and have a gift, it seems, for sharing thoughts live.
~ Val Kilmer
The art of achievement is the art of making life - your life - a masterpiece.
~ Wilferd Peterson
[Art is] an attempt to escape from life.
~ H. L. Mencken
Reason exercises merely the function of preserving order, is, so to say, the police in the region of art. In life it is mostly a cold arithmetician summing up our follies.
~ Heinrich Heine
I am unable to distinguish between the feeling I have for life and my way of expressing it.
~ Henri Matisse
Art without life is a poor affair.
~ Henry James
I think graffiti is part of Berlin culture. You think about what the Berlin wall meant and how visible that was in everyone's life. How it was a part of their very identity.
~ Ian Bremmer
Details are the Life of Prose.
~ Jack Kerouac
Thank God for theater and film and television and my very, very, very lucky life.
~ Jonathan Banks
Art is a celebration of life, intended by the artist to put the spectator in touch with the divine.
~ Joseph Plaskett
My music was my life, and it played a large part in my inability to sustain relationships.
~ Kenny Rogers
Music has always been a big part of my life. It's kind of like a refuge for me. I just use it to get away.
~ Kevin Durant
I write to the beat and let life play the guitar strings
~ Macklemore
Purity of life is the highest and truest art.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Many artists have said that when life itself becomes fully conscious, art as we know it will vanish.
~ Marilyn Ferguson